Re: Where's the memory

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Whipper snappers compared to some of these guys. LOL In 1964 or 65 I was probably building that Cub Scout crystal radio.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:ehCAHYObHHA.4544@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Curt Christianson <curtchristnsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
I don't know about you Wes, but suddenly I'm feeling kind of *young* <s>

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Curt

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"Lem" <lemp40@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
Rock wrote:

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Wesley Vogel wrote:

I am OLD.

I was a big fan of The Beatles in junior high and high school, I
still am for that matter. I read all kinds of books, magazine
articles, etc. a lot of them from the school libraries. I graduated
high school in 1973 so I was around listening to them before they
broke up.
You call that old? ;-)

In 1973, I had been a computer professional for 11 years.
Now that's more like ancient...


LOL! Yep, ancient is what I am. I started out programming an IBM 1401 in
1962 (and had spent a few years in an unrelated career before that).


You've got me beat by a couple of years. In my first or second computer
class, in 1964 or 65, one of the exercises was to use FAP
(http://www.frobenius.com/fap.htm) to program a compiler for an IBM 7090.
And to earn a little spare change, I was a night-shift operator for a 709
in '65 (http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-0500.jpg).

IIRC, the users had to include, as part of the JCL at the front of the
card deck, an estimate of how long their job was supposed to take. Some
of the students would simply put all 9's in the field, which meant that
the job could theoretically run for over 41 days before it timed out. The
operators were on to that trick, however. When a job looked as if it was
stuck in a loop (lights frozen), you could use one of the switches you
see in the picture to stop the machine. You could then use the other
switches to load the job elapsed time register with a few bits short of
overflow. Turn things back on and in a few clock ticks, the job would
terminate with the message, "Job xxxx terminated after 999.99 hours."

And on a sadder but related note:
John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html?ex=1332129600&en=c5d2d73907749f77&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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Lem MS MVP -- Networking

To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

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